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Carbonation of concrete causes corrosion of the steel reinforcement and reduces the service life of the structure. Based on the reality that fly ash discharge is increasing year by year and construction sand is becoming increasingly limited, it is of practical importance to study the effect of fly ash dosage and desert sand replacement rate on the carbonation resistance of concrete. Orthogonal test L9(34) with four factors and three levels was designed to study the influence of water-binder ratio, fly ash dosage, sand ratio and DSRR on carbonation resistance of desert sand concrete (DSC). The results of the orthogonal tests were analysed by range analysis and ANOVA and a comparatively better concrete mix ratio was given. Next, single-factor tests were designed to investigate the effects of fly ash and desert sand replacement rates on the carbonation resistance of DSC respectively. The regression model among carbonation depth, fly ash dosage and DSRR was established. The experimental results show that the carbonation depth of concrete with fly ash as a single variable increases with the amount of fly ash, increasing more rapidly in the early stages than in the later stages. As the DSRR increases, the carbonation depth of concrete with desert sand as a single variable first decreases and then increases and reaches its lowest value when DSRR equals 20%. When fly ash and desert sand are mixed into concrete simultaneously, the carbonation depth reaches minimum value on the condition that fly ash dosage is 10% and DSRR is 20%.

During a survey of saprobic microfungi in Southwest China, a coelomycetous fungus was found on dead twigs of Jasminum nudiflorum in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Based on a detailed morphological characterization coupled with multi-locus phylogenetic analyses, the fungus was identified as a new species in the genus Dothidea. Phylogenetic analyses using a combined matrix consisting of internal transcribed spacer (ITS), large subunit rRNA (LSU), small subunit rRNA (SSU), beta tubulin (tub2) and translation elongation factor-1 alpha (tef1-α) confirmed its placement in Dothideaceae and revealed a sister relationship to Dothidea eucalypti. The new species is characterized by pycnidial conidiomata, ampulliform or doliiform conidiogenous cells as well as aseptate, subglobose to ovoid, hyaline to pale-brown conidia. Comprehensive descriptions and illustrations are provided. Morphological characteristics of asexual morph taxa in Dothideaceae are also summarized and discussed.

Industrial soil contamination negatively affects flora and fauna in the soil. Nevertheless, some fungi have the ability to survive in such polluted soils. In this study, we isolated fungal strains from polluted soils in industrialized areas of Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China. Fungal strains underwent morphological observations, subjected to phylogenetic analyses and subsequently described using morphological characterizations and multigene phylogenetic inferences. The molecular data of partial nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) (LSU, SSU and ITS) and protein-coding genes (tef1-α, rpb2 and btub) were used to resolve the phylogeny of newly generated sequences. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses were constructed to clarify phylogenetic affinities. Based on the biphasic approach of incorporating morphology and molecular data, we introduce one new species, Juxtiphoma yunnanensis sp. nov. (Didymellaceae, Pleosporales), two new records viz. Lecanicillium dimorphum (J.D. Chen) Zare & W. Gams (Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales) and Scopulariopsis brevicaulis (Sacc.) Bainier (Microascaceae, Microascales) inhabit polluted soils in China.

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Dothidea kunmingensis Y. Gao, Gentekaki E & Monkai, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF558766; Facesoffungi numbers: FoF 09911; FIGURE 2 Etymology: Named after the location, Kunming from where the holotype was collected. Holotype: HKAS 112234 Saprobic on dead twigs of Jasminum nudiflorum (Oleaceae). Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: coelomycetous. Conidiomata 70–115 × 41–74 µm (x̅ = 89 × 57 μm, n = 10), pycnidial, solitary, immersed, globose to subglobose, dark brown to black, unilocular, without an ostiole. Conidiomata wall 10–15 µm thick, 2–3 layered, comprising dark brown to black cells of textura angularis to textura globosa. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells 5–6 × 4–5 µm (x̅ = 5.4 × 4.4 µm, n = 25), enteroblastic, phialidic, single, discrete, determinate, doliiform to ampulliform or subcylindrical, hyaline, arising from conidiomata wall. Conidia 8.5–12.5 × 8–12 µm (x̅ = 9.9 × 9.3 µm, n = 25), one-celled, subglobose to ovoid, hyaline to pale-brown, smooth, thick-walled. Culture characteristics: Conidia germinating on PDA within 24 h and germ tubes developing from both ends. Colonies on PDA reaching 22 mm in 2 weeks at 25–27 °C, gelatinous, circular, with irregular edge, white to pale yellow from above and reverse, becoming dark in the center after one week. Mycelium superficial to immersed in media, with branched, septate, smooth, hyphae, releasing conidia in a pale brown, slimy, globose, glistening mass. Sporulated after two weeks. Conidiomata, pycnidial, globose, brown, semi-immersed on PDA. Conidiogenous cells 4.7–6.4 × 3.9–4.8 µm (x̅ = 5.5 × 4.6 µm, n = 25), enteroblastic, phialidic, discrete, ampulliform to doliiform, hyaline, smooth-walled, arising from basal stratum. Conidia 4.2–5.1× 2.6–3.5 µm (x̅ = 4.7 × 3.2 µm, n = 25), one-celled, subglobose, ovoid to ellipsoid, hyaline to pale brown, guttulate, smooth, thick-walled. Material examined: CHINA, Yunnan Province, Kunming Botanical Garden, (25°8.19'N, 102°44.25'E), dead twigs of Jasminum nudiflorum Lindl., 24 August 2020, Ying Gao (HKAS 112234, holotype), ex-type living culture, KUMCC 21-0083. Note: Phylogeny of a concatenated SSU-LSU-ITS- tub 2- tef 1-α sequence dataset depicts Dothidea kunmingensis as a sister taxon of D. eucalypti with 70 % ML and 1.00 PP statistical support (Fig. 1). Dothidea eucalypti was introduced by Crous et al. (2017b) and isolated from the leaves of Eucalyptus dalrympleana (Myrtaceae) in New South Wales, Australia. Morphologically, Dothidea kunmingensis has comparatively shorter conidia (4.2–5.1 µm) to those of D. eucalypti (7–12 µm; Crous et al. 2017b). Furthermore, the conidia of Dothidea kunmingensis are subglobose to ellipsoid and pale-brown, whereas D. eucalypti has subcylindrical and hyaline conidia (Crous et al. 2017b). Dothidea kunmingensis differs from D. eucalypti in 28/494 bp of ITS (5.7 %, without gaps) and 10/910 bp of LSU (1.1 %, without gaps) confirming that the two are different species (Jeewon & Hyde 2016).

Dothidea kunmingensis Y. Gao, Gentekaki E & Monkai, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF558766; Facesoffungi numbers: FoF 09911; FIGURE 2 Etymology: Named after the location, Kunming from where the holotype was collected. Holotype: HKAS 112234 Saprobic on dead twigs of Jasminum nudiflorum (Oleaceae). Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: coelomycetous. Conidiomata 70���115 �� 41���74 ��m (x�� = 89 �� 57 ��m, n = 10), pycnidial, solitary, immersed, globose to subglobose, dark brown to black, unilocular, without an ostiole. Conidiomata wall 10���15 ��m thick, 2���3 layered, comprising dark brown to black cells of textura angularis to textura globosa. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells 5���6 �� 4���5 ��m (x�� = 5.4 �� 4.4 ��m, n = 25), enteroblastic, phialidic, single, discrete, determinate, doliiform to ampulliform or subcylindrical, hyaline, arising from conidiomata wall. Conidia 8.5���12.5 �� 8���12 ��m (x�� = 9.9 �� 9.3 ��m, n = 25), one-celled, subglobose to ovoid, hyaline to pale-brown, smooth, thick-walled. Culture characteristics: Conidia germinating on PDA within 24 h and germ tubes developing from both ends. Colonies on PDA reaching 22 mm in 2 weeks at 25���27 ��C, gelatinous, circular, with irregular edge, white to pale yellow from above and reverse, becoming dark in the center after one week. Mycelium superficial to immersed in media, with branched, septate, smooth, hyphae, releasing conidia in a pale brown, slimy, globose, glistening mass. Sporulated after two weeks. Conidiomata, pycnidial, globose, brown, semi-immersed on PDA. Conidiogenous cells 4.7���6.4 �� 3.9���4.8 ��m (x�� = 5.5 �� 4.6 ��m, n = 25), enteroblastic, phialidic, discrete, ampulliform to doliiform, hyaline, smooth-walled, arising from basal stratum. Conidia 4.2���5.1�� 2.6���3.5 ��m (x�� = 4.7 �� 3.2 ��m, n = 25), one-celled, subglobose, ovoid to ellipsoid, hyaline to pale brown, guttulate, smooth, thick-walled. Material examined: CHINA, Yunnan Province, Kunming Botanical Garden, (25��8.19'N, 102��44.25'E), dead twigs of Jasminum nudiflorum Lindl., 24 August 2020, Ying Gao (HKAS 112234, holotype), ex-type living culture, KUMCC 21-0083. Note: Phylogeny of a concatenated SSU-LSU-ITS- tub 2- tef 1-�� sequence dataset depicts Dothidea kunmingensis as a sister taxon of D. eucalypti with 70 % ML and 1.00 PP statistical support (Fig. 1). Dothidea eucalypti was introduced by Crous et al. (2017b) and isolated from the leaves of Eucalyptus dalrympleana (Myrtaceae) in New South Wales, Australia. Morphologically, Dothidea kunmingensis has comparatively shorter conidia (4.2���5.1 ��m) to those of D. eucalypti (7���12 ��m; Crous et al. 2017b). Furthermore, the conidia of Dothidea kunmingensis are subglobose to ellipsoid and pale-brown, whereas D. eucalypti has subcylindrical and hyaline conidia (Crous et al. 2017b). Dothidea kunmingensis differs from D. eucalypti in 28/494 bp of ITS (5.7 %, without gaps) and 10/910 bp of LSU (1.1 %, without gaps) confirming that the two are different species (Jeewon & Hyde 2016)., Published as part of Gao, Ying, Monkai, Jutamart, Gentekaki, Eleni, Ren, Guang-Cong, Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Xu, Jian-Chu & Gui, Heng, 2021, Dothidea kunmingensis, a novel asexual species of Dothideaceae on Jasminum nudiflorum (winter jasmine) from Southwestern China, pp. 43-56 in Phytotaxa 529 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.529.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5814252, {"references":["Crous, P. W., Wingfield, M. J., Burgess, T. I., Carnegie, A. J., Hardy, G. E. St J., Smith, D., Summerell, B. A., Cano-Lira, J. F., Guarro, J., Houbraken, J., Lombard, L., Martin, M. P., Sandoval-Denis, M., Alexandrova, A. 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Our article establishes a mechanism to remind residents whether there are guests visiting through related electronic devices for range finding, identification, etc.A vibrating bracelet (or ring) and a flashing light bar are worn on the resident’s wrist (or neck), that is, to remind the resident by means of vibration and light bar flashing. Other related hardware aspects include LED dot matrix modules, voice broadcast, and infrared door locks; LED dot matrix modules are used to display the current date, time, and visitor information, and the voice broadcast will play the speakers of the visiting guests. The LED dot matrix module can provide information about visiting guests for the hearing impaired or residents with reduced mobility, and the voice broadcast can provide information about the visiting guests for the visually impaired or residents with reduced mobility. If the resident completes the identification of the visiting guest and wants to open the door lock, he can use infrared light wave to open the door lock. This is a convenient and safe way for residents with limited mobility or the elderly.

Juxtiphoma yunnanensis Yasanthika, G.C. Ren & K.D. Hyde, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF558129, Facesoffungi number: FoF09617, FIGURE 4. Etymology—The specific epithet “ yunnanensis ” refers to Yunnan Province (China), where the species was collected. Holotype — HKAS 107656 Culture characteristics:— Colonies on PDA reach to 4–6 cm diam. after 21 days at 25 °C, becoming flattened with irregular to lobate margins. Mycelium have a cottony to wooly surface, center is smoke grey to olivaceous grey becoming pale brown to brownish yellow at margin; reverse dark grey to black at the centre, with pale brown to brownish yellow at the edge. Hyphae 2–5 μm wide, aerial to semi-immersed and branched, hyaline aseptate, immature hyphae become pale brown septate when mature. Chlamydospores produced from mature hyphae, terminal or intercalary, solitary, or in simple or branched chains, barrel-shaped, globose to subglobose or ellipsoidal to elongated, pale brown to brown, becoming 2–8 guttulate when mature, 4–11 × 3–7 µm (x̄ = 7 × 5 μm, n = 20). Material examined:— China, Yunnan Province, Kunming City, 25.047865N 102.721724 E, industrial wastecontaminated soil, 16 December 2019, G.C. Ren (HKAS 107656, holotype); ex-type living culture, KUMCC 20- 0227. Known hosts and substrates:— Soil Known distribution:— China GenBank Accession No:— ITS: MW 600334, LSU: MW 587029, btub: MW 602383, rpb 2: MW 603001. Notes:— Juxtiphoma is a poorly studied genus with only two species viz. J. eupyrena and J. kolkmaniorum (Species Fungorum 2021). Juxtiphoma eupyrena has dark green colonies becoming black due to chlamydospore formation on Oatmeal Agar (OA), while J. kolkmaniorum has an isabelline to olivaceous colony. Juxtiphoma yunnanensis (KUMCC 20-0227) has smoke grey to olivaceous grey colonies becoming pale brown to brownish yellow at the margin on PDA. Both J. kolkmaniorum and J. eupyrena have conidia-bearing pycnidia on cultures in OA (Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018, Hou et al. 2020). However, we did not see any pycnidial formation of Juxtiphoma yunnanensis (KUMCC 20-0227) colonies in PDA. Nevertheless, Juxtiphoma yunnanensis (KUMCC 20-0227) has abundant chlamydospores formation on PDA culture, which is a common character to Juxtiphoma (Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018, Hou et al. 2020). The combined phylogenetic analysis (ITS-LSU- btub -rpb 2) indicates that our new strain constitutes a distant lineage from Juxtiphoma eupyrena and J. kolkmaniorum with 99% ML, 1.00 BYPP statistical support (FIGURE 1). We introduce this novel lineage as Juxtiphoma yunnanensis sp. nov., which was isolated from industrial waste-contaminated soil in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China., Published as part of Yasanthika, Erandi, Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Ren, Guang-Cong, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Tennakoon, Danushka S., Monkai, Jutamart, Gui, Heng, Mortimer, Peter E., Lumyong, Saisamorn & Hyde, Kevin D., 2021, Taxonomic and phylogenetic insights into novel Ascomycota from contaminated soils in Yunnan, China, pp. 203-225 in Phytotaxa 513 (3) on pages 212-214, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.513.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5312444, {"references":["Species Fungorum. (2021) Available from: https: // www. speciesfungorum. org / Names / Names. asp (accessed 12 January 2021)","Valenzuela-Lopez, N., Cano-Lira, J. F., Guarro, J., Sutton, D. A., Wiederhold, N., Crous, P. W. & Stchigel, A. M. (2018) Coelomycetous Dothideomycetes with emphasis on the families Cucurbitariaceae and Didymellaceae. Studies in Mycology 90: 1 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. simyco. 2017.11.003","Hou, L., Hernandez-Restrepo, M., Groenewald, J. Z., Cai, L. & Crous, P. W. (2020) Citizen science project reveals high diversity in Didymellaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes). MycoKeys 65: 49 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / mycokeys. 65.47704"]}

Juxtiphoma yunnanensis Yasanthika, G.C. Ren & K.D. Hyde, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF558129, Facesoffungi number: FoF09617, FIGURE 4. Etymology—The specific epithet “ yunnanensis ” refers to Yunnan Province (China), where the species was collected. Holotype — HKAS 107656 Culture characteristics:— Colonies on PDA reach to 4–6 cm diam. after 21 days at 25 °C, becoming flattened with irregular to lobate margins. Mycelium have a cottony to wooly surface, center is smoke grey to olivaceous grey becoming pale brown to brownish yellow at margin; reverse dark grey to black at the centre, with pale brown to brownish yellow at the edge. Hyphae 2–5 μm wide, aerial to semi-immersed and branched, hyaline aseptate, immature hyphae become pale brown septate when mature. Chlamydospores produced from mature hyphae, terminal or intercalary, solitary, or in simple or branched chains, barrel-shaped, globose to subglobose or ellipsoidal to elongated, pale brown to brown, becoming 2–8 guttulate when mature, 4–11 × 3–7 µm (x̄ = 7 × 5 μm, n = 20). Material examined:— China, Yunnan Province, Kunming City, 25.047865N 102.721724 E, industrial wastecontaminated soil, 16 December 2019, G.C. Ren (HKAS 107656, holotype); ex-type living culture, KUMCC 20- 0227. Known hosts and substrates:— Soil Known distribution:— China GenBank Accession No:— ITS: MW 600334, LSU: MW 587029, btub: MW 602383, rpb 2: MW 603001. Notes:— Juxtiphoma is a poorly studied genus with only two species viz. J. eupyrena and J. kolkmaniorum (Species Fungorum 2021). Juxtiphoma eupyrena has dark green colonies becoming black due to chlamydospore formation on Oatmeal Agar (OA), while J. kolkmaniorum has an isabelline to olivaceous colony. Juxtiphoma yunnanensis (KUMCC 20-0227) has smoke grey to olivaceous grey colonies becoming pale brown to brownish yellow at the margin on PDA. Both J. kolkmaniorum and J. eupyrena have conidia-bearing pycnidia on cultures in OA (Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018, Hou et al. 2020). However, we did not see any pycnidial formation of Juxtiphoma yunnanensis (KUMCC 20-0227) colonies in PDA. Nevertheless, Juxtiphoma yunnanensis (KUMCC 20-0227) has abundant chlamydospores formation on PDA culture, which is a common character to Juxtiphoma (Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018, Hou et al. 2020). The combined phylogenetic analysis (ITS-LSU- btub -rpb 2) indicates that our new strain constitutes a distant lineage from Juxtiphoma eupyrena and J. kolkmaniorum with 99% ML, 1.00 BYPP statistical support (FIGURE 1). We introduce this novel lineage as Juxtiphoma yunnanensis sp. nov., which was isolated from industrial waste-contaminated soil in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China.

The authors investigate the characteristics of propagation and the influence on tropical precipitation of 9–29-day intraseasonal variation over midlatitude East Asia during boreal winter, and find that the intraseasonal wind signal can propagate both eastward and southward. In the case of eastward propagation, the intraseasonal wind signal is mainly confined to the midlatitudes, featuring eastward migration of anomalous cyclones and anticyclones. In the case of southward propagation, intraseasonal meridional wind perturbations may extend from the mid to the low latitudes, and even the equatorial region. The accompanying wind convergence/divergence induces anomalous precipitation in the near-equatorial regions, forming a north–south dipole precipitation anomaly pattern between the southern South China Sea and the eastern China–Japan region. An anomalous meridional overturning circulation plays an important role in linking tropical and midlatitude intraseasonal wind and precipitation variations.

Ren, Guang-Cong, Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Monkai, Jutamart, Hyde, Kevin D., Mortimer, Peter E., Xu, Jianchu, Pang, Aimin, Gui, Heng (2021): Introduction of Neolophiotrema xiaokongense gen. et sp. nov. to the poorly represented Anteagloniaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes). Phytotaxa 482 (1): 25-35, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.482.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.482.1.3

Additional file 1: Table S1. Antibodies used in flow cytometry and western blotting. Table S2. Primer sequences used in the study

To explore the effects of early bolting on the quality of Peucedanum praeruptorum, the anatomical structures of P. praeruptorum root between bolting and no-bolting were investigated by paraffin section method, and contents of praeruptorin A, praeruptorin B, praeruptorin E, bergapten were determined by HPLC, then the differences and inter-relations were studied by comparative analysis method. The results showed that there existed great influences of early bolting on the root anatomical structures and coumarins content of P. praeruptorum.(1)The area of pericyclic parenchyma tissue and secondary phloem in P. praeruptorum without bolting are large, and have higher content of coumarins.(2) The areas of secondary phloem in bolting P. praeruptorum are large, and have lot of vessels and wood fiber, and the content of coumarins is low.(3)There are significant different of coumarins contents in P. praeruptorum with and without bolting, in their main root(MR),outside the vascular cambium(PP), inside the vascular cambium(PX), and the leaf(LF) parts, and the total content of coumarins was PPgt;MRgt;LFgt;PX. Accordingly, the root anatomical structure and active component of P. praeruptorum were changed after early bolting, which have an important influence on the quality of Peucedani Radix.

A massive amount of reviews are generated daily from various platforms. It is impossible for people to read through tons of reviews and to obtain useful information. Automatic summarizing customer reviews thus is important for identifying and extracting the essential information to help users to obtain the gist of the data. However, as customer reviews are typically short, informal, and multifaceted, it is extremely challenging to generate topic-wise summarization.While there are several studies aims to solve this issue, they are heuristic methods that are developed only utilizing customer reviews. Unlike existing method, we propose an effective new summarization method by analyzing both reviews and summaries.To do that, we first segment reviews and summaries into individual sentiments. As the sentiments are typically short, we combine sentiments talking about the same aspect into a single document and apply topic modeling method to identify hidden topics among customer reviews and summaries. Sentiment analysis is employed to distinguish positive and negative opinions among each detected topic. A classifier is also introduced to distinguish the writing pattern of summaries and that of customer reviews. Finally, sentiments are selected to generate the summarization based on their topic relevance, sentiment analysis score and the writing pattern. To test our method, a new dataset comprising product reviews and summaries about 1028 products are collected from Amazon and CNET. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our method compared with other methods.

Previous studies have revealed a connection between springtime sea surface temperature (SST) in the tropical northern Atlantic (TNA) and the succeeding wintertime El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The present analysis demonstrates that the linkage between springtime TNA SST and the following ENSO experiences an obvious interdecadal change around the early 1980s, with the connection being weak before but significant after. After the early 1980s, springtime positive TNA SST anomalies induce an anomalous cyclone over the northeastern subtropical Pacific and an anomalous Walker circulation with a descending branch over the tropical central-eastern Pacific. This leads to anomalous cold SST in the northeastern Pacific and an anomalous anticyclone over the western-central tropical Pacific, with anomalous easterlies to the equatorward side. As such, springtime TNA SST anomalies are followed by wintertime ENSO after the early 1980s. In contrast, before the early 1980s, anomalous cold SST in the northeastern Pacific and related anomalous easterlies over the western-central tropical Pacific are weak, corresponding to springtime positive TNA SST anomalies and resulting in a weak linkage between springtime TNA SST and the succeeding wintertime ENSO. Further investigation implies that the change in the TNA SST–ENSO relationship is probably due to a change in springtime mean precipitation over the tropical Atlantic and South America.

With the acceleration of the process of global integration, China's international exchanges and cooperation with other countries have been further increased. The personnel exchange has led to the frequent occurrence of imported schistosomiasis from abroad, which seriously endangers people's health. This paper reviews the prevalence and transmission risks of oversea imported schistosomiasis, providing the reference for the entry and exit health quarantine and prevention and control of schistosomiasis in China.[

This paper reviewed the prevention and control of schistosomiasis in the Yangtze River Basin in three stages, centered on the measures and achievements. It pointed out the key work of prevention and control which are infectious source control and effective surveillance at present stage. It will be beneficial to schistosomiasis control in China.[

Precipitation events spanning multiple days may have consequences different from those limited to a single day. In the present paper, the authors analyze circulation anomalies and precursory signals associated with long-duration (over 14 days) summer precipitation events over southern China. The results show that the over-14-day precipitation events are induced by an anomalous lower-tropospheric (850-hPa) cyclone over the South China Sea (SCS) and southern China. The anomalous westerly winds to the south of the anomalous cyclone can be traced to north of New Guinea 30 days before. To the north of anomalous westerly winds, anomalous easterly winds appear later. The anomalous westerly and easterly winds form a cyclonic anomaly, moving northward and slightly westward during the following days and eventually controlling the SCS and southern China. The northward movement of anomalous westerly and easterly winds can also be found in the 30–60-day filtered wind field. This implies that the northward propagating 30–60-day intraseasonal oscillation from the equatorial western Pacific has an important contribution to over-14-day precipitation events over southern China.

This study investigates the origins of intraseasonal rainfall variations over the southern South China Sea (SCS) region in boreal winter. It is found that intraseasonal rainfall variations over the southern SCS have different origins on the 10–20-day and 30–60-day time scales. On the 10–20-day time scale, large rainfall anomalies over the southern SCS are preceded by strong northerly wind anomalies associated with the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM), by about two days. On the 30–60-day time scale, the strong EAWM-related northerly wind anomalies almost appear simultaneously with large rainfall anomalies over the southern SCS. In addition, obvious large rainfall anomalies occur over the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean about one week before the peak southern SCS rainfall anomalies. It indicates that the convection and related circulation anomalies with origins over the tropical Indian Ocean may play an important role in inducing intraseasonal rainfall variations over the southern SCS on the 30–60-day time scale, but not on the 10–20-day time scale.

Background: Nemonoxacin, a novel nonfluorinated quinolone, has broad-spectrum antibacterial activity, including activity against antibiotic-resistant strains, and was developed for treating community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). This report provides an integrated safety summary of oral nemonoxacin from two phase II and one phase III clinical studies. Methods: Patients with mild CAP were randomized for treatment with nemonoxacin 500 mg (NEMO-500MG), nemonoxacin 750 mg (NEMO-750MG), or levofloxacin 500 mg (LEVO), orally, once daily, for 7–10 days. Hematological, gastrointestinal, and hepatic disorders; electrocardiography abnormalities; and reported quinolone-associated clinical concerns were included in this analysis. Results: A total of 520, 155, and 320 subjects were assigned to receive NEMO-500MG, NEMO-750MG, and LEVO, respectively. The incidence of adverse events (AEs) was the highest (54.8%) in the NEMO-750MG group (NEMO-500MG, 36.9%; NEMO-750MG, 54.8%; LEVO, 39.7%) and that of drug-related AEs was comparable between the three groups (NEMO-500MG, 22.9%; NEMO-750MG, 31.0%; LEVO, 22.5%). The majority (>80%) of the patients showed mild drug-related AEs and the distribution based on severity was similar between the groups. The most commonly reported drug-related AEs included neutropenia (NEMO-500MG, 2.5%; NEMO-750MG, 8.4%; LEVO, 4.4%), nausea (NEMO-500MG, 2.5%; NEMO-750MG, 7.1%; LEVO, 2.5%), leukopenia (NEMO-500MG, 2.3%; NEMO-750MG, 4.5%; LEVO, 3.1%), and increased alanine aminotransferase level (NEMO-500MG, 4.4%; NEMO-750MG, 0%; LEVO, 2.5%). Conclusion: Nemonoxacin was well tolerated and no clinically significant safety concerns were identified, suggesting that it possesses a desirable safety and tolerability profile similar to that of levofloxacin, and may be a suitable alternative to fluoroquinolones for treating patients with CAP. Keywords: Community-acquired pneumonia, Fluoroquinolone, Levofloxacin, Nemonoxacin, Safety

Schistosomiasis is one of a few endemic and infectious diseases, which are controlled by the specific prevention and control institutions in China. Through the review of historical data, this paper describes the construction, continuation and changes of schistosomiasis prevention and control institutions in different historical periods and systems, and analyzes and evaluates its historical function, contribution and status.[

Internet of Things (IoT) services are unstoppably demanding more computing and storage resources. Aligned to this trend, cloud and fog computing came up as the proper paradigms meeting such IoT services demands. More recently, a new paradigm, so-called fog to cloud (F2C) computing, promises to make the most out of both Fog and Cloud, paving the way to new IoT services development. Nevertheless, the benefits of F2C architectures may be diminished by failures affecting the computing commodities. In order to withstand possible failures, the design of novel protection strategies, specifically designed for distributed computing scenarios is required. In this paper, we study the impact of distinct protection strategies on several key performance aspects, including service response time, and usage of computing resources. Numerical results indicate that under distinct failure scenarios, F2C significantly outperforms the conventional cloud.

Parasitic diseases are common infectious diseases closely related to poverty, which are mainly endemic in the tropical and subtropical regions. Africa is the major epidemic area of parasitic diseases, and the global burden of malaria and schistosomiasis is over 85% in Africa. This paper reviews the disease burden, regional distribution and control strategies of the main parasitic diseases in Africa, in order to promote the prevention and control of parasitic diseases in this area.[

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of comprehensive schistosomiasis control measures with focus on total removal of cattle and sheep in Juanshan District, Yueyang City.The schistosome infection status of human, cattle, sheep andThe prevalence of schistosome infection in residents in the pilot villages decreased from 3.44% in 2006 to 0 in 2016. The annual costs of schistosomiasis prevention and control were 4 708 500 yuan from 2006 to 2008, 5 094 700 yuan from 2009 to 2012 and 9 522 700 yuan from 2013 to 2016. The cost-effectiveness analysis showed that the average annual cost of reduction in the residents'infection rate by 1% were 79 500 yuan from 2006 to 2008, 101 200 yuan from 2009 to 2012, and 95 200 yuan from 2013 to 2016, respectively.The comprehensive schistosomiasis control strategy with focus on cattle and sheep removal in Junshan District is cost effective which could be extended to other lake and marshland schistosomiasis endemic areas.

To explore the strategy and countermeasures ofThe data of schistosomiasis epidemic and its control and prevention were collected in Junshan District, Hunan Province, and the effect of snail control countermeasures were evaluated and the trend of indexes of snails was drafted in the inside-embankment areas of Junshan District, Hunan Province from 1998 to 2007.The area with snails in the inside embankment areas of Junshan District decreased by 98.43%, from 1 496.66 hmThe comprehensive measures, mainly including the combination of molluscicide and environment reform have gotten a significant effect in snail control and elimination in the inside-embankment areas, but the snail surveillance still need to be strengthened in the historic areas with snails.

Advanced schistosomiasis is the most serious clinical type of schistosomiasis. Its diagnosis and treatment are related to many special departments, such as gastroenterology, general surgery, neurology, endocrinology, radiology, traditional Chinese medicine, blood purification, endoscopy, intervention, and ICU. It is necessary to apply a multidisciplinary treatment (MDT) mode. However, the mode has no universal standard and guide in practice. It is very important for the implementation of MDT mode of advanced schistosomiasis to form a treatment expert team, formulate the formal working procedures, and standardize the treatment schedules. The standardized implementation of MDT mode will be important to provide a more effective clinical decision on advanced schistosomiasis.［摘要］ 晚期血吸虫病是血吸虫病中最严重的临床类型, 其诊疗涉及消化内科、普通外科、神经内科、内分泌科、中医科、 血液净化、内镜、介入、影像科、ICU等诸多专科, 因此采用多学科综合治疗 (MDT) 模式非常必要。然而, 这种模式尚无一致的方案和规范, 成立MDT专家工作小组, 制定工作制度, 规范工作流程等对晚期血吸虫病开展MDT有十分重要的临床 价值。MDT的规范化实施将为晚期血吸虫病的临床决策提供重要保障。.

To understand the current distribution and characteristics of advanced schistosomiasis patients who accepted medical assistance in Hunan Province in 2015, so as to provide the evidence for perfecting the policy and measures of the medical assistance to advanced schistosomiasis patients.The patients who had been diagnosed as advanced schistosomiasis were verified and confirmed according to the standard of the medical assistance to advanced schistosomiasis patients in Hunan Province in 2015. The epidemiological survey was conducted to investigate the demographic characteristics, history of diagnosis and treatment, and medical assistance to these persons.There were 3 850 advanced schistosomiasis patients who accepted the medical assistance in Hunan Province in 2015, and among them, 2 664 patients were male (69.19%), and 1 186 were female (30.81%). Most of them (92.82%) came from the main schistosomiasis endemic areas, such as Yueyang, Changde and Yiyang. There were 2 369 cases of ascites (61.53%), 1 466 cases of splenomegaly (38.08%), 15 cases of colon proliferation and dwarf (0.39%). The mean age of advanced schistosomiasis patients who accepted the medical assistance was (62.94 ± 11.67) years old, with 64.31% of them being more than 60 years old. The age of initial diagnosis of advanced schistosomiasis was (53.85 ± 21.32) years old, and it was concentrated in 40-60 years old (68.57%). The mean duration of advanced schistosomiasis was (9.58 ± 10.06) years, and it was mainly distributed in 10 years (75.95%). The mean duration from initial diagnosis of schistosomiasis to advanced schistosomiasis was (22.33 ± 14.20) years. The priority of the medical assistance to advanced schistosomiasis patients was given to the county hospitals (76.57%); and the effective rate of assistance was 94.46%. Totally 86.57% of the patients with advanced schistosomiasis got the medical insurance (rural cooperative medical care, urban medical care, etc.).The burden of the medical assistance to advanced schistosomiasis patients is still heavy because of many patients and low cure rate in Hunan Province. The ascites patients and high age patients should be the important objects of the medical assistance.

The medical assistance to advanced schistosomiasis patients established by the Chinese government is a major public facility for patients with advanced schistosomiasis. Since the medical assistance to advance schistosomiasis patients in Hunan Province started ten years ago, a set of mature and operable programs with whole program management and related technologies has been developed. The author investigated the data on medical assistance to advanced schistosomiasis patients in Hunan Province during the last 10 years (from 2006 to 2015) retrospectively, and found that the program had high therapeutic effect and high satisfaction degree of both patients and the society. In order to improve the management of the medical assistance to advanced schistosomiasis patients and share our experiences of the whole program management and related technologies with the colleagues of other provinces, this paper mainly illustrates the experiences of the program, as well as the existing problems and related strategies.

This paper summarizes the clinical diagnosis and treatment of imported African schistosomiasis, in order to make the therapeutic standards. Imported African schistosomiasis includes mainly schistosomiasis haematobia and schistosomiasis mansoni in China. In order to set up the operational standards, enhance diagnostic and cure rates, and reduce the complications, we review the related literature combined with our experience over years, and summarize, in this paper, the pathogenic mechanism, and key points of clinical diagnosis and treatment of schistosomiasis haematobia and schistosomiasis mansoni, so as to provide the reference for clinical doctors.

Toppling-deformation tends to occur in the anti-dip bedded slope, but recently we find that the steep bedding rock slope also exists this mode. The study of the formation mechanism has an important significance to the evaluation of the slope stability. This paper takes the III# landslide which is in front of a dam in Yellow River as an example. Based on the engineering geological survey, the failure process of the landslide is studied by qualitative analysis and numerical modeling. The results indicate that the failure process of the landslide includes rock mass unloading, toppling deformation and sliding. The results of using finite element match to that of discrete element calculation, which proves the rationality of the conclusion.

For the magnetic field with unknown magnetization direction, it is necessary to study the edge detection for the magnetic source of oblique magnetization directly. In this study, we propose a new edge detection called anisotropy normalized variance based on magnetic gradient tensor (ANV_MGT). First we use an anisotropy scale to improve the core function of ANV to show the effect of the anisotropy Gaussian function. Then the magnetic gradient tensor mode is used in the ANV method to process the anomalies with oblique magnetization. We construct a numerical model of complex magnetic anomalies with an oblique magnetization, which is used to test the edge detection method. The model test shows that the proposed method, ANV_MGT, can detect the edge of the magnetic source with non-vertical magnetization direction. It also shows that the proposed method is better than application of ANV on the 3D analytic signal amplitude. In the application to real data from western China, a perfect magnetite ore location is determined by performing ANV_MGT for the non-reduction to the pole data.

A new type of powertrain system was developed for electric hybrid vehicles. It is mainly composed of engine, first electric motor, first shaft, synchronizer mechanism, second electric motor, planetary gear set and second shaft. The adoption of one planetary gear set and synchronizer mechanism make it can be operated in four different operation modes with high energy efficiency and lower cost, its four operation modes are pure electric driving, hybrid driving, independent engine driving and regenerative braking. These four operation modes can fit the vehicle practical conditions according to order from the control system.

In order to provide a new power train for electric hybrid vehicles that is simple in structure and lower in cost with higher fuel efficiency. A new power train for electric hybrid vehicle was designed with only one motor, one engine and a two speed ratio gear box. It has six different operation modes and can meet the vehicle driving requirements，and can provide pure electric drive, independent engine drive and hybrid drive with two speed ratios.

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A new powertrain system was developed for electric vehicle driving application with adoption of one electric motor and one set of planetary gear set. With the control of fork, the sleeve of synchronizer can mesh two different parts on the left and right side; the system can provide pure electric driving, hybrid driving and regenerative braking operation modes to meet vehicle practical conditions. It can reduce both power train structure size and cost with fewer parts.

The aim of this study was to explore the associations and differences in influencing factors between alcoholic liver disease (ALD) coupled with Helicobacter pylori infection and atherosclerosis and to determine whether there is a “double hit phenomenon” in atherosclerosis patients with ALD and H. pylori infections. Included cases (n = 160) were categorized into 4 groups: 41 cases of ALD coupled with H. pylori infections (group A), 35 cases of H. pylori infections without ALD (group B), 37 cases of ALD without H. pylori infections (group C), and 47 normal control cases (group D). CIMT was significantly greater in group A than in groups B and D (P = 0.005 and P = 0.001, respectively). The GLM univariate analysis found that CIMT was significantly greater in group A than in groups B, C and D (P = 0.018, P = 0.001 and P = 0.009, respectively). We found that BMI and ALT, AST and ApoB levels were independent predictors of CIMT (P = 0.000, P = 0.000, P = 0.012 and P = 0.014, respectively). ALD coupled with H. pylori infection may result in significant CIMT thickening, but H. pylori infection without ALD and ALD without H. pylori infection does not, suggesting that a “double hit phenomenon” occurs. Additionally, BMI, and ALT, AST and ApoB levels were independent risk factors for increased CIMT.

A high dynamic range CMOS image sensor (CIS) with dual charge transfer phase is presented. The proposed method enhances the DR (Dynamic Range) of CIS by generating two branch of reset and charge transfer control signal TG according to the incident light intensity. Compared with conventional techniques, the method presented in this paper shows linear response in all light intensity range. The proposed CIS pixel architecture is implemented with 0.18 um 1P4M standard CIS technology. The DR of CIS with the proposed architecture reaches to 107.36 dB with 46.21 dB enhancement with only 5% additional power consumption.

A new type of electric power train system was designed for fully hybrid electric city bus, which is mainly composed of engine, power coupling mechanism, first motor, second motor, motor controller, power train controller, power battery, and Drive axle. Its main characteristics of power coupling mechanism is adoption of one planetary gear set to realize the function that can be provided by two planetary gear sets. The new power train can be manufactured with lower cost because of its simple structure with higher transmission efficiency and less faults such as oil leakage. The new system can provide five operation modes for city bus, which are hybrid driving, pure electric driving, regenerative braking, grid charging, and stop charging.

A new kind of power train was developed for low speed lorry with top speed less than 70km/h. this new hybrid power train is mainly consisted of clutch, transmission, engine, engine controller, vehicle controller, power battery, electric motor, and main differential. The main differential has a set of gear for power input, which is for engine and motor power coupling. This new system can provide pure engine driving, pure motor driving, hybrid driving, and braking energy regeneration according to different conditions, which can save energy and improve efficiency.

A new type power steering system was developed for electric hybrid city bus. It is mainly composed of fluid reservoir, electric motor, steering pump, safety valve, solenoid, pressure sensor, hydraulic cylinder, braking air tank, controller, steering wheel, steering angle sensor, steering control valve, mechanical steering mechanism, steering power cylinder. Its main idea is based on using of pressure from braking air tank to push a cylinder to generate hydraulic pressure. It can provide enough pressure for steering needing timely. And the steering pump does not need working at the time of no steering requirement. The application of a new type power steering system can save energy to improve fuel efficiency.

A new type of electric power train system was designed for fully hybrid electric city bus, which is mainly composed of engine, power coupling mechanism, first motor, second motor, motor controller, power train controller, power battery, and Drive axle. Its main characteristics of power coupling mechanism is adoption of one planetary gear set to realize the function that can be provided by two planetary gear sets. The new power train can be manufactured with lower cost because of its simple structure with higher transmission efficiency and less faults such as oil leakage. The new system can provide five operation modes for city bus, which are hybrid driving, pure electric driving, regenerative braking, grid charging, and stop charging.

A new type test bench was developed for power train used in electric hybrid vehicle. This bench was mainly composed of inertial flywheels, brake, clutch, dynameters, and controller. When testing the power train, the engine, power train, inertial flywheels, brake, clutch and dynameters are connected in series. One end of inertial flywheels is connected with output end of power train; the other end is connected with a clutch. Between the inertial flywheels and clutch, there is a brake for braking of flywheels. The clutch is for connection and disconnection of inertial flywheels and dynameters. This new test bench can perform different power modes with corresponding operation modes set in the main controller.